@gt12 said in Japan RWC2019 - Tickets and Info:

@canefan

Yep, get a non-reserved ticket and ride two stops to Shin Yokohama. You could save a few pennies and ride from Shinagawa too.

I should mention that you probably won't break 70 kms on that stretch.

I don't care, I took it down to Kyoto last time. I don't want to spend the day riding trains this time. I won't tell if you won't We are going to have JR passes anyway so it's all covered. Alternatively can you suggest a desirable destination to go on the bullet, no more than 2 hours outside Tokyo?

@gt12 said in Japan RWC2019 - Tickets and Info:

@canefan

Yeah, those places aren't cheap at the best of times.

If pressed, I think people could also stay down in Shizuoka and catch the Shinkansen up, or out in Chiba (or Kanagawa) and catch the Yokosuka line into town.

I'd also look at Super Hotels, APA, and other business hotels - there is probably still some availability around Tokyo for those, although not the easiest for travel, I imagine.

My mate wants to ride the bullet train (no he isn't 5 years old!!!). Am I correct that there is a bullet train that you can take from Tokyo to Yokohama? I planned to go down there in the morning of game day on the Shinkansen, enough to satisfy him

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@jegga said in Hansen needs his head read:

The Gatland factor for me is over ridden by the amount of shit Welsh fans could heap on their neighbours for the next four years.

Oh and they would. Very important that they don't beat us though or they will be heaping the shit on me - which means that we would need to lose a semi final - if we get that far.

Really is just easiest and best all round that we win it. Wales can lose in the final if they want.

There’s no scenario in which I’m comfortable with Wales beating us. The thought of them humiliating Krustys team in a final pleases me though .

France is the only team I want us to lose to in a final. They are the only team that regularly dissolves the aura at RWC time. BTW, that doesn't mean I want us to lose the final!!

@gt12 said in Japan RWC2019 - Tickets and Info:

@pakman

Budget dependent, I'm a big fan of Shinjuku, but for train access to the Yokohama games plus main sites, Shibuya is a good option (anywhere on the Toyoko line is good for this). You can go as far up as Ikebukuro as the Fukutoshin lines runs through there.

I'd also be tempted to stay in Yokohama and catch the Shinkansen one stop to Shin Yokohama - definitely one for people with the rail pass (but you'd need to be doing other traveling to make that worth while).

Also, staying in Yokohama is nice - look in the Minato Mirai area.

When organising I looked at Yokohama. Accomodation was uber expensive and much fewer to choose from than Tokyo. You might want to take what you can get

I'm OK with Wales, France (they can play very good rugby, and the fans I've met are very respectful). That's it

@mariner4life said in Hansen needs his head read:

South Africa: Nope Old enemy, same amount of cups as us, quotas and internal politics. Thugs, cheats, and wannabe tough guys

Reminds me of a saffa gold pro my dad met on the GC years ago. They got to talking about rugby, and I think my uncle made some glib comment about us getting shafted in the 1995 cup. This guy sparks up with "We play hard but we don't cheat!!"

Fast forward to CF Jnr's weekend football in house comp. One team, managed by a saffa dad, fully schooled in the dark arts; shoving off the ball, shirt pulling, the whole bit. And to top it off this Saffa dude turns a blind eye and even worse cheats on throw in calls. It's farken 8 year olds FFS. We don't cheat?

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@dogmeat said in RWC squad. Who's in, who's out?:

I may have been told last November by someone who may be a world cup winning 10 and current selector that Bridge was almost certainly going to Japan and that it might be a season too far for a certain long serving prop. Allegedly...

That conversation which I never did get around to writing up (too late now) suggests that the TWM actually have been working to a plan and may even know what they're doing; hard though it is to imagine that they could do a better job than the collective wisdom of The Fern.

#trusttheprocess

@pakman said in Japan RWC2019 - Tickets and Info:

@canefan Ta. I'll check it out.

Lots of dodgy little bars and alleys, yakitori joints, lots of neon signs. It's is how I think of Tokyo

@pakman I'm staying in Shinjuku, which rocks. Accommodation will be short now